[Jimmy] Breslin's [write] really great book on Branch Rickey. And Branch Rickey himself wrote quite a lot. There's some film and kinescope from television.

Work hard and figure out how to be useful and don't try to imitate anybody else's success. Figure out how to do it for yourself with yourself.

'May the Force be with you' is charming but it's not important. What's important is that you become the Force - for yourself and perhaps for other people.

I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Really, what are the options? Levi's or Wranglers. And you just pick one. It's one of those life choices.

Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.

Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted.

You have to have a darkness...for the dawn to come. You have to have experienced difficulties and challenges to fully appreciate and be grateful for success.

I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale.

I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.

Turtle makes all men equal.

It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality.

He's been on vacation for a year and month. Captain Kirk never left the helm when the Enterprise was under attack.

There are a lot of questions that come out of the silence. It is so close to the infinite.

There are in most states one or two ministers of war, one of whom is the minister of naval affairs.

Wherever you have people, you have factions and disagreements and personality conflicts.

I'd hate to be a giraffe with a sore throat.

One should hate very little, because it's extremely fatiguing. One should despise much, forgive often and never forget. Pardon does not bring with it forgetfulness; at least not for me.

It can't help but knock things down.

You can't go around being what everyone wants you to be, living your life through other people's rules, and expect to be happy and have inner peace.